David Carroll
Cell Phones and our Households
In 2015, the Pew Research Center, led by associate directer Amanda Lenhart, conducted research on how cell phones affect teenagers online usage. Through online conducted polls they found that about 92% of teens go online at least once a day, with 24% of them admitting to being online "almost constantly". This being in a day where 88% of all teens ages 13-17 have access to a mobile device, 75% of them having a smartphone.
This study took to finding out how things such as social media, income, and even gender is connected in this swing in online activity. They found that Facebook is the most used site for teens coming in at a total of 71% of teens who use smartphones use Facebook. They found that having a higher income leads to more use of sites such as Snapchat and Instagram, where as lower income teens tend more towards Facebook. This study also found that females tend to "dominate" social media, where as males are more likely to play video games. [1]
- ^ "A Majority of American Teens Report Access to a Computer, Game Console, Smartphone and a Tablet". Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. Retrieved 2015-10-08.